Hip-Hop and Rap is at its best right now.

I think it depends how it is done and how often. Sadly I think most sampling is used solely as a lazy way to get into the charts nowadays - rappers find a catchy hook from the past that most people havent heard of then rap over the top of it and sell it as a repackaged lesser version of the original. This doesnt apply to Kayne West to be fair and his samples (such as in Power) dont actually mimic the original song but rather take a very small part of it, that he works around.

 

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2012/02/guess-whos-in-the-studio-w-warren-g-photo/#3
warren g in the studio with game if they release a track it will be brilliant hopefully its got the classic g-funk sound of warren g

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIe5dS8e8Y"]CunninLynguists - "Darkness" featuring Anna Wise of Sonnymoon - YouTube[/ame]

HIGHLY recommend this group and this album, absolutely amazing.

 

http://www.datpiff.com/Asher-Roth-The-GreenHouse-Effect-Vol-1-mixtape.15910.html
one of the best mixtapes about never used to rate asher till a heard this

 

I'll check it out I'm just like you, I don't rate him either, I'll check him out though since he changed your opinion with this, maybe he'll do the same for me

 

get that and pabst and jazz a think his other one is both brilliant

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85JNOGorwc"]Wiz Khalifa - Phone Numbers Ft. Trae Tha Truth & Big Sean - YouTube[/ame]

Drumma Boy one of the best producers of last year

 

Earl Sweatshirt is back home by the way, this is his Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/earlxsweat

 

I read throught the first 9/25 pages and didnt recognise many of these newer rappers. All you guys in the loop still tell me what happened to these guys I used to listen to when I was at school......

The Roots - The Seed (reason i learnt drums - listen to it)
Talib Kweli
Jurassic 5
^ there was another group similar to these guys I forget the name of.
Mos Def I've mainly seen doing cameos in movies
Pharoe Monche (sp?)
Gangstarr

These were the stuff i liked, I reckon i could get back into them. Got into Nas too but he was alot more popular. I used to be the only guy that liked this music in my bit about 10yr ago lol.

 

all still releasing music and a think most of them have albums dropping this year or next

 

Cheers bud, I'll have to check those out..... just dug about there and found some old albums - going on iTunes right about now :icon_mrgreen:

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp7aEnRYmN0"]Talib Kweli feat. Big K.R.I.T., Outasight & Mela Machinko - Beautiful - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGhUnFnvS4&feature=fvwrel"]The Roots Ft. Big KRIT - Make My (Lyrics) [Full Song HQ] - YouTube[/ame]
some of talib and the roots newer stuff

 

the visuals for jay-z and kanye west's n****s in paris are supposed to be released later today

 

http://www.thejourneythroughlawschool.com/2012/02/jay-z-kanye-west-n-in-paris-official.html

the video for n****s in paris a couldn't find it on youtube so had to use this site. its brilliant one of the best videos in the last year or 2 my personal favorite is the games martian vs goblins video but this is right up there and the picture quality is brilliant

 

So frustrating!!!

the video won't buffer for me been sat at 0.03 second for ten minutes, all I can see is a bunch of hands lol, i'll try again later.

Anyway since this has turned into the official rap/hip hop thread, i'll leave this song of when Eminem was imo the best artist alive at that moment:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfm30WEiPk"]Eminem: Rock Bottom (lyrics) - YouTube[/ame]

Pure Poetry.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44"]Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit) - YouTube[/ame]
try that, it wasn't upload on youtube when a posted it and maybe the vevo thing doesn't work on your computer.
also heard the game and kendrick lamar started recording the video for the city yesterday really looking forward to that one of the best tracks off of the red album and kendrick is the future

 

Thanks mate that link worked perfik.

It's trippy as * *, I like it though and I liked the decision to keep the live vocals for the video bold but admirable choice

Surprised you have it down as one of your favourite video's of the year though, anyone who is really good with editing and graphic designs skills could have pulled it off don't you think?

 

Eminem was so so good back then.

 

Untouchable. But now.... not so much.

 

probably but it is quite out the box in terms of music videos that are about just now in the mainstream and a think its cause everything runs with the beat so even the video is in time with the music and it keeps that whole concept through out. the other stand out video for me so far is lil wayne and bruno mars - mirrors its a cracking video
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLUa8JUR18"]Lil Wayne - Mirror ft. Bruno Mars - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODGcVSzh1U&ob=av2n"]Martians Vs. Goblins - YouTube[/ame]
if that was released like 2 weeks later it would be my video of the year, it creeps the * out me but a think its a fantastic concept and not what you expect from a music video